[FIX] For wifi connection dropping too easily/often

[gtg465x]

I don't even have this phone, but I'm tired of hearing you guys complain about your wifi dropping . HTC programmed the Desire S to drop wifi connections if the signal falls below -88db. I'm not sure why they did that because -88db is a perfectly usable signal. With this fix, your wifi connection won't drop until the signal falls below -108db.

You need to be running a custom deodexed ROM to apply this fix.

Flash through Clockwork Recovery.

Let me know if it works for you!


If you appreciate my work, donations of any amount are very much appreciated.

 

[gtg465x]

Small update... noticed that I didn't set the permissions right on one of the files. May want to grab v2.

On another note, where is everyone? Dev community for this phone needs to wake up!

 

[loveboatcaptain]

Small update... noticed that I didn't set the permissions right on one of the files. May want to grab v2.

On another note, where is everyone? Dev community for this phone needs to wake up!

i´m here ;-)

just downloading v2 and give it a go and a test...
i will report back as soon as i feel there is something happening after flashing ;-)

thanks for this.... if this works, i can enjoy my wifi in the kitchen while drinking coffee ;-)

regards and thanks

 

[titus1]

We still can't use it, for the majority of Desire S user got an S-ON units.

 

[crubbish]

For those who can't apply the above fix due to "S on" (pretty much everyone?) you can try the easier way which I've posted in another thread. Some people said it doesn't help but there's no harm in trying

there's a stock setting that can enable Desire S to hold Wi Fi connection a lot better. Go to Settings -> Wireless & networks -> Wi-Fi settings. Click menu button and choose Advanced. Second section from the top is "Best Wi-Fi performance" - tick it. That's it. It really made the difference for me. Dropped Wi Fi signal was a frequent thing with my Desire S but ever since I've ticked this option (~1 week ago) I haven't had such problem at all.

 

[gtg465x]

For those who can't apply the above fix due to "S on" (pretty much everyone?) you can try the easier way which I've posted in another thread. Some people said it doesn't help but there's no harm in trying

there's a stock setting that can enable Desire S to hold Wi Fi connection a lot better. Go to Settings -> Wireless & networks -> Wi-Fi settings. Click menu button and choose Advanced. Second section from the top is "Best Wi-Fi performance" - tick it. That's it. It really made the difference for me. Dropped Wi Fi signal was a frequent thing with my Desire S but ever since I've ticked this option (~1 week ago) I haven't had such problem at all.

Just so people know, doing this does NOT have the same effect as applying my fix. That might help you a little in the mean time until you get S-OFF, but my fix should completely fix the issue.

 

[gtg465x]

Also, why does loveboatcaptain appear to have S-OFF and the rest of you can't?

 

[abo.saud]

^^^^^^^^^
He might used xtc clip to turn it from s-on to s-off
this is the only way to do this until a dev figur some
software way to do this

 

[Lacuna666]

^^^^^^^^^
He might used xtc clip to turn it from s-on to s-off
this is the only way to do this until a dev figur some
software way to do this

Yes, true, and the xtc-clip is pretty expensive too, so most of us have to wait for a software method to get s-off, and then we can root and install clockworkmod i believe.

 

[titus1]

Unless you knew someone or somewhere who can make it to S-OFF, cause the xtc clip is expensive.

 

[dont know]

Why there are two files to dowload? What's the difference?

Anyway: thanks for the fix

Now there would be a reason to flash the deodexed ROM from loveboat

As there are few devices sold and there is only one cook but no "hardcore-devs" (no offense to loveboatc.) for kerneltweaks or S-off there is not much life here..

Mine is S-off since SIMunlock - but done by a company for money (EUR 20,-)

But the stock-htc-2.3.3 is really great (very good battery, very stable,...) - so better than CM7 on my NexuS :/ I only needed root for deleting the htc-ads.app (navigation, amazon,...) and for adblocker,..

 

[gtg465x]

Why there are two files to dowload? What's the difference?

Anyway: thanks for the fix

Now there would be a reason to flash the deodexed ROM from loveboat

As there are few devices sold and there is only one cook but no "hardcore-devs" (no offense to loveboatc.) for kerneltweaks or S-off there is not much life here..

Mine is S-off since SIMunlock - but done by a company for money (EUR 20,-)

But the stock-htc-2.3.3 is really great (very good battery, very stable,...) - so better than CM7 on my NexuS :/ I only needed root for deleting the htc-ads.app (navigation, amazon,...) and for adblocker,..

The two different versions are for two different ROM bases. Look in your software information to see which firmware you're running.

 

[loveboatcaptain]

Also, why does loveboatcaptain appear to have S-OFF and the rest of you can't?

yes i used the xtc clip to get s-off, but didn´t buy one. i found someone who has this clip in a german android forum. meet him, give him some bugs (15€) and a coffee and while drinking that coffee he unlocked my wildfire and my desire s.

so you needn´t to buy it, cause you only will use it once. the s-off with the xtc clip is irreversible. nothing what you can flash can change that at the moment.

there is a second possibility with the clip as i read. there is a new version for sale which works "prepaid" and costs something like 25€/20£ which is a quite cheep way to get s-off i think.

phone repair shops in berlin for example have that clip too. will take some time to find one, but it´s really simple when you live in a bigger city.

Now there would be a reason to flash the deodexed ROM from loveboat

As there are few devices sold and there is only one cook but no "hardcore-devs" (no offense to loveboatc.) for kerneltweaks or S-off there is not much life here..

Mine is S-off since SIMunlock - but done by a company for money (EUR 20,-)

But the stock-htc-2.3.3 is really great (very good battery, very stable,...) - so better than CM7 on my NexuS :/ I only needed root for deleting the htc-ads.app (navigation, amazon,...) and for adblocker,..

grrrrr ;-) i know that i´m not a hardcore dev :-( sadfully for myself too.
i would like to have someone who can do the job better than me. i made that only for myself, but wanted to share that with the community, cause there was nothing really usefull to find. and without HCDR.Jacob we would still have nothing, cause i would have failed on that what we now have.

give me some more time. i´m a hardcore family father, with a 10 month old little boy and a wunderfull wife, who like what i´m doing in my freetime, cause she´s addicted to android too *chear* and of course i have a fulltime job too.

but i´m working hard in my freetime to build something that will be a good basement for evrything that comes further.

on my next 2 or 3 free days i will be have a look at the kernel. perhaps HCDR.Jacob will give me a hand on that again, so we could do a little OC and UV for better battery life and some smartass-gov tweaks.

i also set up my mac (yes shame on me i use an apple macbook to build android ;-) ) to build from source for android.

you know what that mean right? AOSP ROM ;-) or to be clear CM7 !!!
but this will take a lot of time i think. for me ;-) but let´s see what i can do for all of use until there are hardcore devs around. which would be super cool to have someone to work with...

regards

 

[bongo1]

im a new android user, i booted into the clockwork thing and selected your update file from sd card to update with. It appears to install correctly.

Is there a way i can check if this patch has been installed properly or not?

Thanks

 

[gtg465x]

im a new android user, i booted into the clockwork thing and selected your update file from sd card to update with. It appears to install correctly.

Is there a way i can check if this patch has been installed properly or not?

Thanks

Open /system/etc/calibration as text and see if rssi_offset at the bottom of the file is equal to -20.

Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA App

 

[bongo1]

Thanks for that, my offset is 0 so didn't work, does the patch work on the stock eu firmware with root, or do I need to use loveboats custom firmware?

Thx

Sent from my HTC Desire S using XDA App

 

[bongo1]

Installed loveboats custom firmware,

maybe i missed something but i did following.
- install LBC MOD SAGA alpha v0.01
- boot into clockwork recovery
- select install zip from sd card and select saga_wifi_fix_1.28.401.1_v2.zip
- install sucessfull
- reboot phone
- rssi_offset=0 so did not work

did i make any mistake?

thanks

 

[loveboatcaptain]

Installed loveboats custom firmware,

maybe i missed something but i did following.
- install LBC MOD SAGA alpha v0.01
- boot into clockwork recovery
- select install zip from sd card and select saga_wifi_fix_1.28.401.1_v2.zip
- install sucessfull
- reboot phone
- rssi_offset=0 so did not work

did i make any mistake?

thanks

so i found time to test your fix a little bit...
sadfully i have to say that your update.zip didn´t work with my ROM (see below).

the files are working, really gread... now i can drink coffee in my kitchen without loosing my wifi connection. thank you very much for fixing that.

to fix your update.zip i compared your updater-script with mine.
you used the following mount command:

mount("ext3", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p26", "/data");
mount("ext3", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p25", "/system");

i used this:

mount("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p25", "/system");
mount("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p26", "/data");

the desire s and the incredible s are using ext4 which you can find out by typing following in your terminal:

adb shell
mount

this is the output from my terminal:

...
/dev/block/mmcblk0p25 /system ext4 ro,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p26 /data ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p27 /cache ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p28 /devlog ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
...

i´ve had the same problem with my ROM and while compiling and building the clockworkmod recovery... after changing everything to ext4 clockworkmod and the script installed my ROM successfully.

i tried the lines and modified your script and after that the files where changed correctly.

hope that will help the other ones having problems to flash it.

regards

p.s. can i use your fix in the next update for my ROM (credits included ;-) !! ) and is it possible to increase the values a little more (just for personal interest)

 

[bongo1]

i can confirm changing the file system as you suggested worked

Thankyou to both.

 

[gtg465x]

Thanks loveboatcaptain. I just assumed the mounts would be the same as the Desire HD. Updated the fixes in the first post to mount ext4.